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Orestes (1345-1390)

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as far it as rests with me, regard yourselves as safe. Exit Hermione .
Electra
Now, friends in the house with swords, seize the prey!
Hermionecalling from within
Oh no! Who are these I see?
Orestes
(within.)Silence! You are here for our safety, not yours.
Electra
Hold her, hold her! Point a sword at her throat,
then wait in silence, that Menelaus may learn that he has found men, not Phrygian cowards, and he has been treated as cowards deserve.
1353
Chorus
Oh, oh, friends! raise a din, a din and shouting before the house, that the murder when done
may not inspire the Argives with wild alarm, to make them bring aid to the palace, before I see for certain that Helens corpse lies bloody in the house, or hear the news from one of her attendants;
for I know a part of the tragedy, of the rest I am not sure. In justice, retribution from the gods has come to Helen; for she filled all Hellas with tears, through that accursed, accursed Paris of Ida,
who drew Hellas to Troy.
1366
Chorus Leader
But the bolts of the palace-doors rattle; be silent; for one of the Phrygians is coming out, from whom we will inquire of the state of matters within.
Phrygian
(expressing the most abject terror.) I have escaped from death by Argive sword,
in my Asian slippers, by clambering over the cedar-beams that roof the porch and the Doric triglyphs, away, away! O Earth, Earth! in barbaric flight!
Alas! You foreign women, where can I escape, flying through the clear sky or over the sea, which bull-headed Ocean rolls about as he circles the world in his embrace?
Chorus Leader
What is it, Helens slave, creature from Ida?
Phrygian
Ilium, Ilium, oh me! city of Phrygia, and Idas holy hill with fruitful soil, how I mourn for your destruction a shrill song
with barbarian cry; destroyed through her beauty, born from a bird, swan-feathered, Ledas cub, hellish Helen! to be a curse to Apollos tower of polished stone. Ah! Alas!
woe to Dardania, its wailing, wailing, for the horsemanship of Ganymede, bedfellow of Zeus.

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